I feel like a lot of people expect furniture to all be solid wood, even if they pay bottom dollar. The sides and back of this are that thin particle board-type material, but you can't tell once it's together. Dark wood pretty much always look high-quality from afar and that's the case here, too. We have a nearly-three-year-old who plays around it every day and so far, it has held up magnificently. We've had it for a few months now, by the way. We have a 39" inch Vizio LCD tv on top, and it is a perfect fit. Probably wouldn't go any bigger than that with your tv. We have our xbox 360, wii (laying down horizontally) and modem on the top shelf, and underneath, behind the door, are our dvd player, remotes and controllers, cords/cables, etc. It's only a little less than two feet tall, but puts our tv at right about eye level when we sit on our furniture to watch it, so for us, it was just what we needed. We might replace it later on when we're able to afford something bigger, but we'll still use it somewhere in our home because we really do like it.
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!]